Diabetes is an expensive condition to manage not only for individuals but also for the United States healthcare system. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the estimated total economic cost of diabetes in 2007 was almost $200 billion. Specifically the money was spent on:

Medical expenditures totaling $116 billion

Diabetes care: $27 billion

Chronic diabetes-related complications: $58 billion

Additional general medical costs: $31 billion

Costs To The Individual

In addition to these direct costs, factor in indirect costs for things such as missed days of work, reduced productivity, disease-related unemployment/disability and early mortality at a cost of $58 billion. The almost $200 billion in spending related to diabetes in 2007 was a 32 percent increase over 2002 spending. At the individual patient level, yearly healthcare costs for a person with diabetes is approximately $11,700 with 57% (approximately $6,650) attributed to diabetes care.

The ADA offers these additional financial statistics:

On average, diagnosed diabetics have medical costs almost 2 and a half times those of non-diabetics.

Diagnosed diabetics make up 5.8 percent of the total U.S. population.

24.3 million days were spent in the hospitals in 2007 for diabetes-related reasons compared to 16.9 million days in 2002.

445,000 cases of unemployment disability in 2007 were attributed to diabetes.

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